OK, University of Kentucky, you win :-)
UK 2011 Swimming and Diving Intro Video from UK Sports Video on Vimeo.
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Jay Platt demonstrating his handcuffed, blindfolded and shackled technique
So it’s already on Friday that Jay Platt will attempt to cross the Mississippi, blindfolded with hands and feets cuffed. Here is a video, and see also the Swim for the Warriors Facebook page, with additional videos and stuff in the lead-up to the swim.
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Swimming Cup 2009 – remember the supersuits ?
Nice, maybe a bit nostalgic: “It don’t matter, cause cause have never been better. No not ever, life has never been better.” Is that Alexander Dale Oen swimming breaststroke without a bodysuit ?
Swimming Cup 2009 from Paolo De Matteo on Vimeo.
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Chloe Sutton: How to make swim practice fun
Great blog post here on Universal Sports by Chloe Sutton:
Coach Rose is very smart and sneaky. He will give us a really hard and seemingly long set, but make it so that if we go really fast, we get out of some of it. One of those sets might be 30×100 on 1:30. He’ll tell us that we can go whatever speed we want on all 30. If we want to go 1:25’s he doesn’t care. BUT, if we go under a time that he gives us on any of them, then that particular 100 counts for 2. If we go 15 of the 100s under the time that Coach gives us, then we’re done. The great part about this set is that he’s giving us a choice and letting us feel like we’re getting out of something. Obviously, we all only want to do 15, so we’ll sprint 15x100s at a really fast time because of the extra motivation, and we feel like it wasn’t that bad because we didn’t have to do 30. My time to beat might be around a 1:04 on sets like these. That sneaky Coach Rose …
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Capturing surf tricks in bullet time with 30 GoPros
Timeslice Films and Rip Curl are at it again, freezing surf tricks in Matrix-style “bullet time”, now using an array of 30 GoPro cameras. Via PetaPixel.
They’ve done it before, then using 52 Canon Rebel DSLR’s. But with the GoPros, the solution is waterproof :-)
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Goran Colak – Freediving World Record 273 m
Wild, Croatia’s Goran Colak swims 273 meters in one breath, breaking the ‘Dynamic With Fins (DYN)’ world record at the Aida Pool World Championships in Lignano, Italy on October 15th, 2011. With a dramatic ending.
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British Olympians in Flagstaff
Story by Brandon Kamerman, featuring British Swimmer Jak Scott and British Swimming Head Coach Dennis Pursley.
Olympians in Flagstaff from Brandon Kamerman on Vimeo.
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45-year-old Platt to swim the Mississippi cuffed, shackled and blindfolded
On Friday November 11, former Marine and cancer survivor Jay Platt aka “Mr. Unstoppable” will try to swim across the Mississippi about an hour south of Memphis, Tennessee, blindfolded, hands cuffed behind his back, and feet shackled. A swim about a mile and a half long, in waters predicted to be about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, dolphin kicking Marine-style for about an hour. Crazy yes, but then Platt has survived four brain tumors, spinal tumors, kidney cancer and lost an eye, and still completed a similar swim between Alcatraz and San Francisco. Read The Valdosta Daily Times. -
Freediving with a great white shark
*And* sea lions … now that is a photosafari that I don’t want to partake in :-S“On the last day we had the bottom at 20m and the coastal drop off in sight and spent more than 4 hours freediving with 3 giant sharks sharing the spectacle with some curious sea lions. Freediving at its best.”
Read Nektos.net, see also oceanencounters.net
See also this “Project Ocean Quest” trailer, where Fred Buyle swims with hammerheads, mantas and humpback whales!